Promiscuous Pairing - Yes it Works!

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Oct. 15, 2014

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Promiscuous Pairing
Yes It Works!
-Ankur Sambhar

What is
Promiscuous
Pairing?

switching pairs very
frequently

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Being Agile developer, have tried & tested various flavors of pair programming over the years while working in highly motivated self-managed team. Some experiments worked while some worked better :)

This presentation is about sharing the personal experience of practicing promiscuous pairing which allowed the team to be always in the beginner's mind state and being able to push the boundaries consistently.

Vice President at J.P. Morgan

Being Agile developer, have tried & tested various flavors of pair programming over the years while working in highly motivated self-managed team. Some experiments worked while some worked better :)

This presentation is about sharing the personal experience of practicing promiscuous pairing which allowed the team to be always in the beginner's mind state and being able to push the boundaries consistently.

License: CC Attribution License

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Promiscuous Pairing - Yes it Works!

1. Promiscuous Pairing Yes It Works! -Ankur Sambhar
2. What is Promiscuous Pairing?
3. switching pairs very frequently
4. optimize learning and spread of knowledge
5. preventing state of flow
6. What is “Beginner’s Mind”?
7. …state of few limits
8. tries more approaches tries them rapidly
9. transitory state that depends on instability
10. to maintain it as a stable state?
11. Change things around frequently
12. What worked for us?
13. fine granular tasks… each < 3 hrs
14. tasks pulled by least qualified team members
15. pair switching every 60 mins
16. pair rotation every 12 mins
17. code check-in every 12 mins
18. Challenges we faced
19. team composition junior – master developers
20. odd number of team members
21. how frequently rotate pairs? 10 mins? 25 mins? 60 mins?
22. finding optimum pair switching frequency 30 mins? 60 mins? 120 mins?
23. What have we achieved with it?
24. quick knowledge sharing across team on each task
25. no local optimization
26. better quality deliverables
27. improved throughput of team
28. shorter ramp-up time for new hires
29. It pays to be promiscuous! keep pairing… As they say…
30. Questions & Answers?